“Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.” MenMadeVoiceBehindsTechnologyHeardHe ManSceneCommunicateBackgroundsSpokesBehind The Scenes Author:Regina Agyare
“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.” PeopleMenDoneYoungOrderFightingHalfRightsHeardFashionYouthHe ManClaimsRidiculousSettingObligationSettingsComicGreekMaturityLatterShyPhenomenonPlatformsFulfilmentDisgraceful Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.” MenWellsSaidStoriesHeardHe ManOughtPulpit Book:Lectures to My Students Source: Lectures to My Students
“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.” MenShouldMadeGrowsStuffSoundHeardSeaHe ManStormRainbowIridescent Book:The Plumed Serpent Source: The Plumed Serpent
“DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.” MenMayNamesChanceHeardFashionHe ManNativeLatterPeterIrelandPrinted Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“I chose Bagdasarian Productions when I heard from some colleagues at work who were buying story boards at the time back in the early '90. I met the man once when I came in with the first half of the story board and the only thing he said when looking at the first half of the board was, "It's so nice to see someone using their imagination."” MenFirstsSaidStoriesImaginationHalfNiceHeardHe ManMetsProductionsBoardsBuyingColleagues Author:Mike Royer
“Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."” MenSaidTogetherCoursesNextSpeakHeardStreetsHe ManBillsDollarsLawyerTwelveDiscoveringCrossingsGet TogetherCrossing The Street Author:George S. Kaufman
“The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.” MenMadeLanguageAudienceHeardDivineHe ManFitInfiniteIntellectRhythmVedas Author:Sri Aurobindo